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Definition of Chekhov

Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904)

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Finally, in reading the works of Tolstoi, Turgenev, Dostoevski, Gorki, Chekhov, Andreev, and others, what is the general impression produced on the mind of a foreigner?

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No one can read Chekhov and Andreev without being conscious of the hovering spirit of the first master of Russian fiction.

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It is generally agreed that no man has succeeded better than Chekhov in portraying the typical Russian of the last twenty years of the nineteenth century.

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Just at the moment when Chekhov appeared to stand at the head of young Russian writers, Gorki appeared, and his fame swept from one end of the world to the other.

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It is probable that there were a thousand foreigners who knew his name, to one who had heard of Chekhov.

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Compared with Chekhov, he had more matter and less art.

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, like Pushkin, Lermontov, Bielinski, and Garshin, died young, and although he wrote a goodly number of plays and stories which gave him a high reputation in Russia, he did not live to enjoy international fame.

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Gorki himself has generously tried to help in the perpetuation of Chekhov's name, by publishing a volume of personal reminiscences of his dead friend.

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Like Gogol and Artsybashev, Chekhov was a man of the South, being born at Taganrog, a seaport on a gulf of the Black Sea, near the mouth of the river Don.

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Chekhov was a fine conversationalist, and fond of society; despite the terrible gloom of his stories, he had distinct gifts as a wit, and was a great favourite at dinner-parties and social gatherings.

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At this time many Russians believed that Chekhov was the legitimate heir to Tolstoi's fame.

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In 1879, while still in the University of Moscow, Chekhov began to write short stories, of a more or less humorous nature, which were published in reviews.

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Chekhov, like Gorki and Andreev, was a dramatist as well as a novelist, though his plays are only beginning to be known outside of his native land.

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Mr. Baring, in his book "Landmarks in Russian Literature," has an excellent chapter on the plays of Chekhov, which partially explains the difficulties an outsider has in studying Russian drama.

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And a few sentences farther in the same paragraph, he adds, "Chekhov's plays are a thousand times more interesting to see on the stage than they are to read.

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Madame Nazimova has said that Chekhov is her favourite writer, but that his plays could not possibly succeed in America, unless every part, even the minor ones, could be interpreted by a brilliant actor.

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Chekhov is durch und durch echt russisch: no one but a Russian would ever have conceived such characters, or reported such conversations.

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Although Chekhov belongs to our day, and represents contemporary Russia, he stands in the middle of the highway of Russian fiction, and in his method of art harks back to the great masters.

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The two chief features of Tolstoi's work-self-revelation and moral teaching-must have been abhorrent to Chekhov, for his stories tell us almost nothing about himself and his own opinions, and they teach nothing.

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Example #1

It is one of intense gloom.

Example #2

And it is worth remembering that when Tolstoi was a young man, his aunt advised him to have an intrigue with a married woman, for the added polish and ease it would give to his manners, just as an American mother sends her boy to dancing-school.

Example #3

He could truthfully have adapted the words of Joseph Hall:- I first adventure: follow me who list, And be the second Russian Realist.

Example #4

The uncompromising attitude toward fidelity in Art which Gogol emphasised in "The Portrait" set the standard for every Russian writer who has attained prominence since his day.

Example #5

Why has Sienkiewicz described the racial temperament in two words, improductivite slave?

Example #6

So late as 1894 Stepniak remarked, "it may be truly said that every educated Russian of our time has a bit of Dmitri Rudin in him.